For approx. 15 years the personalized plates on my Tiger have been Q-SHIP. I
think it very appropriate for the car.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <twojohnsons@home.com>
Cc: <TIGEROOTES@aol.com>; "Tiger List" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: "Re: Q' Ships
> At 05:46 PM 1/23/2001 -0500, twojohnsons@home.com wrote:
> >You are VERY wrong as to the success achieved by the German armed
merchant
> >raiders during WW2. May I recommend "The Secret Raiders" by David
> Woodward, which
> >traces the successes of ten such raiders.
>
> There is a world of difference between "Q" ships and Hilfkreuzern.
> Radically different vessels.
>
> The Q ships were a WWI BRITISH development to lure U-Boats to their
demise.
> They had a brief flurry of success around 1916 but were soon supplanted
as
> the German skippers became more wiley.
>
> Hilfkreuzern, or merchant raiders, were actively employed in large numbers
> by the Germans in both World Wars. The most successful in the First War
> was the Mowe, which made two epic journies into the Indian Ocean, complete
> with a spotting aircraft. In the Second War, another German HK, the
> Kormorant, managed to sink the Australian cruiser Sydney with all hands.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
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